An apparatus that mimics the courtship or mating ritual of a tom turkey and a hen turkey. The device has a base with a rotatable spool that is wound with a cord. A hen turkey decoy is stationary on this base while the cord is pulled forcing a tom turkey mounted on a rod and connected to the spool to rotate around the hen turkey. It has been discovered that the rotation mimics the mating ritual thus attracting other dominate tom turkeys. The simulation brings the other dominate tom turkeys into a close proximately to the decoy apparatus and close enough for a hunter to capture the dominate male turkey.
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1. An apparatus for decoying turkeys, said apparatus consisting of:
i. a base having a bottom surface and a top surface, said base having at least three stabilizer stakes mounted at said bottom surface;
ii. said top surface having rotatably mounted thereon, a spool, said spool having a top surface and an outside top edge;
iii. said top surface of said spool having fixedly mounted near a center point of said spool, a first vertically aligned support stake;
iv. said top surface of said spool having fixedly mounted thereon, near said outside top edge, a first coupler for a rod, and mounted in said first coupler, a first horizontally aligned rod, said rod having a distal end;
v. said distal end of said first horizontal aligned rod having a second coupler attached thereto, a second horizontal aligned rod being attached to said second coupler;
vi. a distal end of said second horizontal aligned rod having mounted thereon a second vertically aligned support stake;
vii. said spool having mounted thereon, a predetermined length of cord;
viii. wherein each said first and second vertically aligned support stake has mounted thereon a decoy turkey.
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Turkey decoys are not new to the art. However, a turkey decoy that incorporates motion and interaction with other decoys that simulates the mating rituals of breeding turkeys is. There are many examples of decoys that are not animated.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,191,304 issued to Poorman on Jun. 5, 2012, entitled, Turkey Decoy, is an example of a Turkey decoy. The Poorman decoy is fashioned to represent a male turkey, having a substructure construction of tubular material, including a turkey head supported upright, an integrally extending lengthy support for holding the turkey body, and a downwardly depending tube, for impaling within the ground; and expandable turkey body made of a flexible, nylon material printed to the image of a real life turkey, expands into an open position around the body supporting portion of the tubular structure, to hold the body of the turkey in place. This prior art example lacks the ability to have motion induced during use. It is a prime example of a stationary singular turkey decoy. The fact that it lacks any ability to be a non-stationary device allows the present invention to have a greater utility over this particular piece of prior art.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,562,487 issued to Barr on Jul. 21, 2009, entitled, Decoy Movement System for Simulating Life-Like Movement of Animal Species”, provides an example of a decoy mounting and movement system for mounting a hollow animal species decoy and for simulating life-like movements of the animal species between a rest position and a vertically pivoted position which simulates feeding by animal species.
The decoy mounting stake is formed of an elongated upper stake section and an elongated lower stake section interconnected via an elongated vertical return spring capable of bending along its length to create an angle between the upper and lower stake sections, the upper stake section dimensioned for insertion into the hollow of the decoy through an opening in its underside in communication with the hollow of the decoy, wherein the fulcrum for vertical pivoting of the decoy is positioned at the lower end of the upper stake section and the ratio D′/D is less than 0.25, wherein D′ is the distance between the underside of the decoy and the fulcrum for vertical pivoting, and D is the length of the upper stake section. This prior art example illustrates feeding of the animal, not mating.
The movements of the present invention are choreographed to display the active courtship between a male turkey and a female turkey. The utility is clear. The present invention has a greater utility, in that, a dominate turkey will take issue with the courtship and perform his own ritual in an effort to win the female turkey, therefore overriding the primal desire to breed over feed.
The present invention is an apparatus for decoying turkeys. The apparatus comprises a base that has a bottom surface and a top surface. The base has at least three stabilizer stakes mounted at the bottom surface.
The top surface has rotatably mounted thereon, a spool. The spool has a top surface and an outside top edge.
The top surface of the spool has fixedly mounted near a center point of the spool, a first vertically aligned support stake.
The top surface of the spool has fixedly mounted thereon, near the outside top edge, a coupler for a rod, and mounted in the coupler, a horizontally aligned rod, the rod has a distal end.
The distal end of the rod has mounted thereon a second vertically aligned support stake. The spool has mounted thereon, a predetermined length of cord.
The outside top edge 18 supports the first coupler 22 which in turn supports the horizontally aligned rod 26. This horizontally aligned rod 26 has a near end 28 and a distal end 30. The near end 28 is supported by the first coupler 22 at the outside top edge 18 of the spool 12. The distal end 30 has a second coupler 42 that supports the second vertically aligned support stake 32.
The first vertically aligned support stake 20 supports the hen decoy 36 while the second vertically aligned support stake 32 supports the tom decoy 38.
The spool 12 is mounted on the base 4 on a bearing 40 that allows the spool 12 to be rotatable. Wrapped around the spool 12 is a cord 34.
This embodiment has set screws 60 that connect the horizontally aligned rods 26 and 28 that are fixed into the couplers 22, 42 and 62. These set screws 60 make the connections easily broken down for transportation purposes. The other embodiments have a single horizontal rod 26 with not center coupler 62. Other embodiments have the rods 26 and 28 permanently fix into the couplers with fasteners such as screws, pins, rivets or any other fasteners that would be suitable to fix the rods 26 and 28 into the couplers 22, 42, and 62. The rods 26 and 28 permanently fix into the couplers 22, 42 and 62 by welding, soldering, gluing or any other suitable way to affix the rods 26 and 28 permanently into the couplers 22, 42 and 62.
The turkey decoy apparatus 2 has as a first and second vertically aligned support stake 20 and 32 respectively that have a hen decoy turkey 36 and tom turkey decoy mounted them.
The turkey decoy apparatus 2 has a horizontally aligned rod 26 that can be manufactured from plastic, fiberglass, wood, carbon fiber, aluminum, and other metals.
The turkey decoy apparatus 2 is shown with one embodiment where the horizontally aligned rod 26 is a unitary piece and the other where it is segmented into two pieces. The horizontally aligned rod 26 is manufactured to be portable meaning the rod has multiple segments.
The turkey decoy apparatus 2 has a horizontally aligned rod 26 with a length that represents the distance that the tom turkey moves around the hen. This distance as well as the horizontally aligned rod 26 varies from around 2 feet to about 6 feet.
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